OurRockies develops and runs software tailored to the vacation rental property market. Based on 12+ years experience developing E-commerce applications, we feel we've made some pretty good choices.

We use Open Source software wherever possible. It allows us to focus on innovating, instead of re-inventing.

We've based our system on Drupal, a content management system well suited to dynamic application development. It's key features include:

• Content management. Users may create and manage their own content, including business listings, events, polls, mailing lists, discussions, blogs and photos.
• E-commerce. Businesses can manage sell their products and services online with complete security and confidence.
• Extensibility. Be it how the site looks or the features it offers, Drupal is an ideal platform to customise.
• Support. Drupal has a very active development community and is poised to become the leading open source content management solution.

We use MySQL, an enterprise-class relational database to provide storage. Our software is written in PHP, one of the most popular programming languages used by Web developers.

But you don't get a full-featured property management portal for free. Open source software provides our foundation, but it's our custom development and integration that puts us years ahead of our competitors.

We've developed:

• Availability and booking engine.
• Open Travel Alliance connector for flights and car hire from all the major airlines, car hire agencies and charter flight consolidators.
• Dynamic packaging.
• Property management and reporting.
• Order processing, accepting Visa, MC and Amex.
• Comprehensive business listings.

And when it comes to performance and availability, we found the best. CRUSE Technologies provides our hosting and direct fiber optic connections to the Internet via both Shaw BIG PIPE and Telus.